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Feast your eyes on Maria Miller's snazzy website!

Hat-tip to Jules Mattson for drawing my attention to Maria Miller's superbly engineered website, which uses cutting-edge graphic design and snappy news stories to chronicle the life of this most dynamic and unconventional of politicians. Here's the masthead photograph of the Culture Secretary. (Tip to non-tech savvy readers: she's not actually sitting in front of a turquoise wall. Using the latest digital tools, her tech wizard has "cut out" a high-resolution image of her from somewhere else!)

A "cut-out" image of Maria!

Now for the "content", as we say these days. Some Government ministers issue a stream of dreary press releases which give the impression that they can't be bothered to "dig in" to constituency life. Not our Maria!

Sorry if those are too small to read, but I didn't want to crop out the photographs of Mrs Miller that accompany every story. Mrs M is normally most reluctant to advertise herself, but the website editor obvious persuaded her to go for "that personal touch".

As for the stories themselves, Maria's quixotic humour turns even the most humdrum event into "a good yarn" as we say in Fleet Street. What a gift for future biographers! No wonder she's so often compared to another maverick Tory wit, the late Alan Clark. I'm reluctant to cherry-pick mariamiller.co.uk, but here's a cracker!

Again, sorry for the small type, but I didn't want to deprive you of Maria's cheeky but self-effacing grin. Let me highlight the "money quote":

Maria said: “I was very glad to be interviewed by the students for their BBC School News Report project. This is a great project and the students from the English department are clearly learning a lot from being involved with it.”

She added: “ As far as the changes to GCSEs are concerned, I told the students that young people in this country deserve an education system that can compete with the best in the world, and that these reforms are important to give our young people the broad, deep and balanced education which will equip them to win in the global race.”

Priceless advice for hungry young minds! British education should indeed "compete with the best in the world" so that pupils can "win in the global race". If only the PM had appointed a truly radical thinker to the Department of Education! Perhaps Maria could be moved there – or, better still, simply absorb it into her existing department. Is there nothing this woman can't do?